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Yeah, Ballista is tons of fun. I haven't played in a while, simply because I've been so busy with other stuff lol.

must... get sharkbite... must hit 70.. must defeat maat... must get rank 10...

so much to do ... :{

but eya it looks like fun ^^ I should try it although i hear theifs do poorly ; ;

Yes...I too have greatly enjoyed Ballista. And I agree with Meara, we really need more NA playing Ballista. I would really love to see more strategy involved in the matches. The JP have a set strategy it seems. However, the communication barrier makes it hard to get involved. Please play Ballista NA players, I promise you will be hooked.

If I had the gil to get updated gear, I'd probably join ... but as it stands, I'm like broke ... 'course, my playtime's only like 10 days total right now LOL ... I think I'm doing quite well though.

From what I gather the stragety tends to be get as many people to sleep/bound as possible, then group up on one and kill them.

I *think* that each team tries to protect a rook for as long as it is in one spot while killing members of other team to get Gate Breach status. At least, this is what we did in the 30 cap. In the 50 and 60 it was more chaotic.

Most people seem to try to get TP and then just weapon skill someone to death. I've been Vorpal Bladed and Sidewindered to death before.

From what I tell, black mages cast sleepga/bind, white mages are curaga to wake sleepers, white thieves and thieves dash about trying to get petras and kills.

If anyone else has more definite views on the stragety I'd love to hear them.

I don't think BST can charm fiends for Ballista, they have to use jug pets.

Yeah Ballista is a lot of fun, unfortunately the balance issues are starting to rear their ugly heads. I've only played about 10 games but its the same crap that wins a game every time. RNG/NIN with arrows that can both drain your HP and sleep you, not to mention Eagle eye shot (which can be refreshed finding a potion with /quarry) and Barrage which can take anyone down pretty quickly. I've seen a lot of fights won solely on whichever team had enough Utsusemi Ichi (blink) to absorb everything. Everyone subs ninja of course so unless you're going to break some barriers you had better start making some Norg Fame. Personally I think anyone who subs ninja should have a 30 second or longer recast on utsusemi, leaving only the Real ninjas to constantly evade everything thrown at them. Otherwise when its not a blink fight, Ballista is the most fun you'll ever have in FF at times. I don't think we need to recruit all the NA players though... do you guys honestly want 30 on 30? I'd be too busy deciding whether to chase the taru or chase the whitemage ><

So er, wait a minute, Eagle Eye Shot, (RNG's 2 Hour) can be refreshed/reset from quarrying a potion? I know that's almost exactly what it says, but I want to make sure.

ballista is all I have done for quite some time. Here are my setups - lv60drk/war (war for now, almost up to 30 on sam)
50drk/nin 2x combat caster swords
40drk/nin or rdm sub .. 2 combat caster axes
30rng/nin emp pin, +32 evasion total, both +1 bows, i usually just rock the regular bow and dont go the cheap route with sleep bolts like the other rngs

oh ya and I want to get RNG, RDM, NIN higher up, because NIN is best for 40 cap and RDM is just fun.

Best jobs for ballista - RNG, BLM, MNK, NIN, SAM, DRK, RDM
If your a taru watch out because everyone aims for them first lol

People to watch out for - monku, legolassis, matoo, yoshihiro, shal, bitan, and more who I dont remember. Another good up and coming NA player is Illidan, I got him hooked on it.

Watch out for Garth, him and I in 30 cap with our rngs rippin' it up in the name of San'doria

I wont be able to play much lately because of college starting up again and such. Its my brother on my character right now, i left it at his house so dont bother msging him for ballista ~


Edited, Mon Aug 23 19:30:23 2004 by DoylesPaintball

ya they are ok, but wyvern just dies, so they're kinda gimped most of the game. cloudtheone plays drg in ballista well, along with another JP guy who does drg/whm

but ballista rules changed for some reason and its not even fun anymore. They have a best of 3 thing, so the game stops twice for sneak and invisible, so theres 10min of down time added, and than u lose all petra and GB status. Now there is no resistance to sleep (not that it even helped much before) The worst change they made was with GB status, only the person who kills someone else gets it.

isnt it called bastilla not ballista?

i'm pretty sure its spelt ballista, in fact i'm positive

I'll bet ya a mil gil =P